Posts by Arthur Ward34

I was wondering what your thoughts might be on picking up an i7 6800 instead of the Intel i7 5820?

William Richardson12 said:Vengeance is solid, no matter which kit you pick. Way more reliable than those cheap knockoffs you find online...

I think the Vengeance LPX black 4x8GB 2133MHz from Amazon might be the best way to go.

Does anyone have any recommendations for an X99 motherboard?

Kimberly Gomez34 said:From my experience, faster RAM can actually trigger quite a few stability issues if you aren't careful with the timings and voltage settings. If you don't perform those specific tweaks, things might run fine, though that's assuming there aren't other underlying hardware conflicts at play.

Which RAM would you suggest I go with?

wiredotter14 said:https://www.amazon.com/intel-motherboards-x99&results=55

https://www.amazon.com/intel-processor-i7-5820k.html

https://www.amazon.com/ddr4-memory-ddr4&results=277

Since you've already got a budget set aside and don't need to buy most of the parts, you'll have plenty left over for the heavy hitters.

Jumping to an I7 6700 would be a decent move, but honestly, going for a hexa-core is much better—plus, you can overclock it.

http://www.newegg.com/noctua-nh-d14-cpu-cooler/p/N1D1-0011-000
(for example)

What kind of PSU are you running?
If it handled the i7 920 @3.4 GHz, it should handle an overclocked 5820K just fine, but strictly speaking...

P.S.

You should probably dig into which X99 board to grab. From what I've seen on Newegg and similar sites, people complain about reliability issues on quite a few models, even some of the pricier ones.

Why go with 4x8GB of RAM? Wouldn't it probably be better to grab 2x16GB now so you can just add another 2x16GB later on?

wiredotter14 said:Budget?

I guess it isn't particularly tight..

Hi everyone,

I'm thinking about upgrading my current setup:
CPU - i7 920 running at 3.4GHz
MB - Asus P6T-SE
RAM - 12GB (3x4GB sticks)
GPU - GTX 750 Ti
SSD + HDD
I was considering jumping up to 32GB of DDR4, maybe paired with something like an I7 6700 and a matching Asus Z170 motherboard.
Since I just recently picked up the GPU and the SSD, I probably shouldn't change those just yet.

So, I guess I'm wondering how much sense this upgrade actually makes, and if the performance boost would be really noticeable.
I don't really use this for gaming; it's mostly for things like video editing and similar tasks...

Thanks in advance to everyone.